Page Structure Calibration Checklist
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CYCLE Calibration position — Active Development This page is a conceptual instrument under Permanent Beta. It declares a real calibration position, not a finished product waiting to ship. Checking continues; an edit is only required when evidence demands it. Stage: Seed to Fruit. Feedback welcome — especially clarity, failure modes, and calibration gaps. Use discussion or Contribute. |
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Page Structure Calibration Checklist
| Type | Meta & Framework |
|---|---|
| Functional Layer | |
| Application Layer | Framework Infrastructure |
| Category | Meta & Framework |
| Version | 0.2 |
| Maturity | Development |
| Last Calibration | 2026-07-14 |
| Status | Permanent Beta |
| Description | Prep-work checklist for verifying a page's structure, templates, and tooling are complete and current before any content calibration begins. Separate from Content Calibration Procedure. |
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This is not optional preamble — it is a hard dependency. Content calibration produces judgments (validation ratings, symmetry checks, instrument grades) that get recorded in specific fields, on a specific page structure, and cross-referenced by other pages and queries. If that structure is missing, wrong, or stale, a content calibration's result has nowhere reliable to live and cannot be trusted or found later — regardless of how careful the content review itself was. Skipping Step 0 does not make content calibration faster; it makes its output unreliable.
Page Structure Calibration Checklist
Purpose: Before calibrating a page's content (accuracy, symmetry, reasoning — see Template:Admin Page Status/doc's Conceptual Review), verify the page's structure is complete, current, and correctly wired. A page with perfect content but a missing Resource block, stale template, or broken transparency link is not calibration-ready. This checklist is Step 0 — run it first, every time.
Both automated and curated, deliberately: most items below can be verified by an `#ask` query (does the field/template exist). A minority require actual human/AI judgment (is it filled in *correctly*, not just present). Both passes are required — presence is not correctness.
Checklist
| Item | Required? | Check Method | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Notice | Only if page is genuinely in active development | Curated (presence appropriate, not content judgment) | Should be removed once a page reaches Confirmed or higher `instrument_grade`. |
| `== Page Title ==` heading | Every page | Curated | Confirm it's a real, manually-set title matching the actual page name — not left as placeholder text, not using `Page Structure Calibration Checklist`. |
| GameModule infobox | Every page, with narrow structural exceptions | Automated (presence) + Curated (field names current) | Confirm fields use current names (`Functional Layer` not `Calibration Type`), `Maturity` uses the 5-value scale. |
| Page Transparency footer | Every page | Automated (detect) + Curated (verify) | Detect which transparency template (if any) is present:
Page Transparency & Calibration
This page is under continuous calibration in line with the Permanent Beta principle. Public Discussion Welcome Questions, suggestions, feedback, disagreement, and proposed improvements are welcome on the Talk page. Light rules:
, Page Transparency & Calibration
This page is under continuous calibration in line with the Permanent Beta principle.
, Page Transparency & Calibration
This page is under continuous calibration in line with the Permanent Beta principle. Public Discussion Welcome Questions, suggestions, feedback, disagreement, and proposed improvements are welcome on the Talk page. Light rules:
, or none. Report the finding in the Calibration Report. Do not judge correctness here — this checklist only verifies presence and correct template choice; content judgment comes later. |
{{Calibration Maintenance}} block |
Only on pages that retain it intentionally | Automated (presence) | Confirm present only where intended. |
| Standing footer (See the Game / Permanent Beta) | Every page | Automated (exact-text match) | Missing or altered footer, checked by string match. |
| Element ordering | Every page | Curated | Confirm required placement order per the seed template's own comments (footer above categories, categories above Resource block, etc.). |
| Categories | Every page | Automated (presence) | Confirm category tag(s) are present and non-empty — content-accuracy of which categories is a later calibration step, not this pass. |
| Hidden Resource block | Every page | Automated (presence) | Confirm block exists and all four fields (Title, URL, Description, Category) are non-empty — matching content to current page state is a later calibration step. |
| Admin Page Status block | Every page | Automated (field-by-field diff against canonical reference block) | Diff against Template:Admin Page Status/doc's canonical reference block. Confirm all fields present — filled-in accuracy is a later calibration step, not this pass. |
| Outbound links valid | Every page | Automated (Special:WantedPages) | Wiki-wide check, no manual link-clicking needed. |
| Backlinks exist | Every page (flag if none) | Automated (Special:LonelyPages) | Flag only — new pages are briefly orphaned by design, not automatically an error. |
Reference Blocks (Current, Verified)
Use these to diff any page's actual GameModule and Admin Page Status blocks against the current standard. Do not rely on memory of field names — outdated field names, missing fields, and stale scales are common, easy-to-miss sources of drift, and diffing against a literal reference block is the most reliable way to catch them.
Current GameModule Reference
{{GameModule
| type =
| category =
| Functional Layer =
| Application Layer =
| Version =
| Maturity =
| Last Updated =
| description =
| contents =
}}
Confirm: `Functional Layer` (not the old `Calibration Type`), `Maturity` uses the five-value scale (Experimental / Development / Confirmed / Field Validated / Reference Standard Candidate — not the old six-value draft), `contents` is not expected to be a stored/queryable field (see Template:GameModule/doc).
Current Admin Page Status Reference
{{Admin Page Status
| categorization =
| calibration_review =
| instrument_grade =
| validation =
| calibration_rationale =
| review_confidence =
| review_date =
| reviewed_by =
| priority =
| review_threshold =
| has_backlinks =
| outbound_links_valid =
| in_outline =
| in_category_outline =
| templates_complete =
| formatting_standard =
| symmetry_check =
| self_report_flagged =
| terminology_consistent =
| standing_check =
| drift_report_status =
| depends_on =
}}
Confirm: no `cited_by` field present (deprecated — generated by query, not stored). All 21 fields present, in this order, even if some values are still blank pending later content calibration.
If either reference block above ever appears to disagree with Template:GameModule/doc or Template:Admin Page Status/doc, those doc pages are correct — this checklist should be updated to match, not the reverse. This checklist is a convenience copy, not the canonical source.
Note on Automating the Related/Dependencies Section
The visible Calibration Dependencies section should stay human-curated (it requires judgment about what's genuinely load-bearing) — but the hidden field verification (does `depends_on` exist, is it non-empty for Core pages, does it match at least a subset of the visible list) can and should run automatically as an `#ask` check, flagging mismatches rather than requiring a human to notice them by inspection every time.
What This Checklist Does Not Cover
This is structural prep only (Step 0). It does not evaluate:
- Whether the page's content is accurate.
- Whether `symmetry_check` should be Applied vs. Needs Work.
- Whether `validation` and `instrument_grade` are honestly rated.
Those belong to the Content Calibration Procedure (see Open Items — not yet built), which should assume this checklist has already passed before it begins.
How to Use This Checklist
- Run all Automated items first — via `#ask` queries and Special: pages, batched, not one page at a time where avoidable.
- For pages that pass automated checks, run the Curated items — requires actually reading the page.
- Only once both passes are clean does a page proceed to Content Calibration.
- Log the result as a standard Calibration Report — structural-only passes should be noted as such ("Step 0 / structural pass only — content review pending") so nobody mistakes a clean structural pass for a completed calibration.
Page Transparency & Calibration
- Calibration Log & Decision Records (via Talk Page) — This page uses Talk-only calibration tracking. Full history of reviews, version changes, calibration decisions, and any governance reasoning behind structural decisions all live on the same Talk page, per Calibration Log: When to Create One and Decision Records: Governance Memory. Not every Calibration Log entry is a Decision Record — scan the Talk page's headings for entries specifically marked as decisions; the link itself being active only confirms this page has calibration history, not that a formal decision was ever recorded.
- View Current Page History — Complete edit history.
This page is under continuous calibration in line with the Permanent Beta principle.
Public Discussion Welcome
Questions, suggestions, feedback, disagreement, and proposed improvements are welcome on the Talk page.
Light rules:
- Prefer evidence and concrete examples over slogans.
- Apply Diagnostic Inversion Test when criticizing — the same standard to this page that you would apply elsewhere.
- Distinguish observation from conclusion.
- Calibration entries and Decision Records are maintenance records; public discussion belongs in ordinary Talk threads.
- This framework remains in Permanent Beta. Better calibration is always in scope.
Calibration References
This page is calibrated against the following core standards and reference materials:
- The Sovereign Games Framework — Overall framework philosophy and operating principles
- Permanent Beta — Core maintenance and continuous improvement standard
- Reference Standards — Principles for traceable, confirmed standards
- Calibrating Conceptual Instruments — Methodology for evaluating and refining pages
- Civilizational Traceability Hierarchy — How standards should connect to reality across levels
- Diagnostic Inversion Test — Mandatory self-application standard
- Reality Game — Foundational reality-alignment tool
- Reality Override Game — Standing discipline against protecting an existing model rather than updating it
- Observable Behavior Rule — Standing principle that diagnostics evaluate observable actions, mechanisms, and consequences, not internal motive, belief, or intent
- One-Way Nature of the Sovereign Games — Anti-capture design principles
- The Royal Cubit Civilization (Strategy) — Long-term civilizational vision and metrology metaphor
- Conceptual Instruments — Overall direction and metrology metaphor
- Breadcrumb Philosophy — Standing discipline for making unresolved questions and provisional decisions explicit
- Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process — Rule that visible and hidden dependency lists must match, and that dependencies describe genuine reliance
Calibration Dependencies
- Template:GameModule/doc
- Template:Admin Page Status/doc
- Calibration Log: When to Create One
- Decision Records: Governance Memory
- Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process
Open Items
- Content Calibration Procedure does not yet exist as its own page — this checklist is deliberately limited to structure (Step 0). The full content-level calibration procedure (judgment, symmetry, validation ratings) will be built separately.
- Automated dependency-mismatch flagging (`depends_on` vs. visible Calibration Dependencies section) is described above but not yet built as an actual query/report.
- Whether this checklist itself should eventually be semi-automated as a template-driven form rather than a manual reference table is an open question — not solved now.
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